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Highlights
The Writer by Robert Laidlow (2021)
This passage of AI-written material, and other passages surrounding it not included as part of the sung text, allude to a writer conjuring nested stories within his imagination. There is a dreamlike quality, a sense of half-decayed memory, to the prose as a result, which this piece tries to capture. As the piece progresses it slides deeper into a pleasant dream or memory while also paradoxically (in the way that dreams can) coming closer to dissolving and revealing whatever harsh reality lies outside of it.
Sonata Primo à 3 by Giovanni Battista Buonamente (1636)
In this recording, Bandwidth players transform a 17th-century trio sonata, performing it live, with latency, across the internet.
The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives (1908)
Charles Ives' 1908 work is synonymous with American musical modernism at the turn of the 20th century. The piece itself was conceived in programmatic terms with the strings representing "The Silence of the Druids-Who Know, See, and Hear Nothing", the trumpet "The Perennial Question of Existence", and the winds "The Invisible Answer". The Unanswered Question, with its three separate groups, explores Ives' polytemporal method where each group is in their own separate temporality. Bandwidth's networked performance, where all players are separated both physically and temporally, presents a literal interpretation of Ives' concept.
Surpassing Solitude by Ellen Drewe (2021)
Surpassing Solitude was written at the beginning of the UK lockdown, focusing on looking forward past the enforced solitude that many of us have experienced. The piece explores the technicalities of working with an online ensemble by presenting the work in 2 sections. The first is very texturally focused, much darker, with many overlapping layers. This allows more freedom when working with an online ensemble. The second section is much more playful and quickly settles into a rhythm between the bass clarinet and double bass, allowing the trumpet to have a more virtuosic melody, representing an increase of freedom as time passes.